Sr. Data Engineer

About Us:

At Vahan, we are building the first AI powered recruitment marketplace for India’s 300 million strong Blue Collar workforce, opening doors to economic opportunities and brighter futures.

Already India’s largest recruitment platform, Vahan is supported by marquee investors like Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Airtel, Vijay Shekhar Sharma (CEO, Paytm), and leading executives from Google and Facebook.

Our customers include names like Swiggy, Zomato, Rapido, Zepto, and many more. We leverage cutting-edge technology and AI to recruit for the workforces of some of the most recognized companies in the country.

Our vision is ambitious: to become the go-to platform for blue-collar professionals worldwide, empowering them with not just earning opportunities but also the tools, benefits, and support they need to thrive. We aim to impact over a billion lives worldwide, creating a future where everyone has access to economic prosperity.

If our vision excites you, Vahan might just be your next adventure. We’re on the hunt for driven individuals who love tackling big challenges. If this sounds like your kind of journey, dive into the details and see where you can make your mark.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Build & Automate Cloud Infrastructure – Design, deploy, and optimize cloud environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Set Up CI/CD & Deployment Pipelines – Develop automated workflows to streamline code integration, testing, and deployment for faster releases.
• Monitor & Improve System Performance – Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Manage Containers & Scalability – Deploy and maintain containerized applications, ensuring efficient resource utilization and high availability.
• Ensure Security & Reliability – Enforce access controls, backup strategies, and disaster recovery plans to safeguard infrastructure and data.
• Adapt & Scale with the Startup – Take on dynamic responsibilities, quickly learn new technologies, and evolve processes to meet growing business needs.

You Will Thrive in This Role If You:

Must Haves:

• Experience: 3+ years in DevOps or related roles, focusing on cloud environments, automation, CI/CD, and Linux system administration. Strong expertise in debugging and infrastructure performance improvements.
• Cloud Expertise: In-depth experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), including services like EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, etc.
• IaC Tools: Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Scripting Skills: Strong scripting abilities in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Containerization: Experience with Docker, including managing containers in production.
• Monitoring Tools: Hands-on experience with tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, New Relic, and Data dog.
• Version Control: Proficiency with Git and code repository management.
• Soft Skills: Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and effective communication with both technical and non-technical team members.
• Database Management: Experience with managing and tuning databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Deployment Pipelines: Experience with Jenkins and similar CI/CD tools.
• Message Queues: Experience with rabbitMQ/SQS/Kafka.

Nice to Have:

• Certifications: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or similar.
• SRE Practices: Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including error budgeting and service level objectives (SLOs).
• Serverless Computing: Knowledge of AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or similar architectures.
• Containerization: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including managing production clusters.
• Security: Awareness of security best practices and implementations.
• Cloud Cost Optimization: Experience with cost-saving initiatives in cloud environments.
• Data Pipelines & ETL: Experience in setting up and managing data pipelines and ETL workflows.
• Familiarity with Modern Tech Stacks: Exposure to Python, Node.js, React.js, and Kotlin for app deployment CI/CD pipelines.
• MLOps Pipelines: Understanding of ML model deployment and operationalization.
• Data Retrieval & Snapshots: Experience with PITI, EC2, and RDS snapshots.
• System Resiliency & Recovery: Strategies for ensuring system reliability and recovery in case of downtime.

At Vahan, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact in a sector that touches millions of lives. We’re committed to not only advancing the livelihoods of our workforce but also, in taking care of the people who make this mission possible. Here’s what we offer:

• Unlimited PTO: Trust and flexibility to manage your time in the way that works best for you.
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance: We’ve got you covered with plans designed to support you and your loved ones.
• Monthly Wellness Leaves: Regular time off to recharge and focus on what matters most.
• Competitive Pay: Your contributions are recognized and rewarded with a compensation package that reflects your impact.

Join us, and be part of something bigger—where your work drives real,

positive change in the world.

PortOne is re−imagining payments in Korea and other international markets. We are a Series B funded startup backed by prominent VC firms Softbank and Hanwa Capital

https://portone.io/global/en

PortOne provides a unified API for merchants to integrate with and manage all of the payment options available in Korea and SEA Markets - Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia etc. It's currently used by 2000+ companies and processing multi-billion dollars in annualized volume. We are building a team to take this product to international markets, and looking for engineers with a passion for fintech and digital payments.

Culture and Values at PortOne

• You will be joining a team that stands for Making a difference.
• You will be joining a culture that identifies more with Sports Teams rather than a 9 to 5 workplace.
• This will be remote role that allows you flexibility to save time on commute
• Your will have peers who are/have
• Highly Self Driven with A sense of purpose
• High Energy Levels - Building stuff is your sport
• Ownership - Solve customer problems end to end - Customer is your Boss
• Hunger to learn - Highly motivated to keep developing new tech skill sets

Who you are ?

* You are an athlete and Devops/DevSecOps is your sport.

* Your passion drives you to learn and build stuff and not because your manager tells you to.

* Your work ethic is that of an athlete preparing for your next marathon. Your sport drives you and you like being in the zone.

* You are NOT a clockwatcher renting out your time, and NOT have an attitude of "I will do only what is asked for"

* Enjoys solving problems and delight users both internally and externally

* Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems

* Posses strong & effective communication skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way

* Responsible, self-directed, forward thinker, and operates with focus, discipline and minimal supervision

* A team player with a strong work ethic

Experience

* 2+ year of experience working as a Devops/DevSecOps Engineer

* BE in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience

* Must have actively managed infrastructure components & devops for high quality and high scale products

* Proficient knowledge and experience on infra concepts - Networking/Load Balancing/High Availability

* Experience on designing and configuring infra in cloud service providers - AWS / GCP / AZURE

* Knowledge on Secure Infrastructure practices and designs

* Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, Release Engineering, and Automation

* Experience with Agile development incorporating TDD / CI / CD practices

Hands on Skills

* Proficient in atleast one high level Programming Language: Go / Java / C

* Proficient in scripting - bash scripting etc - to build/glue together devops/datapipeline workflows

* Proficient in Cloud Services - AWS / GCP / AZURE

* Hands on experience on CI/CD & relevant tools - Jenkins / Travis / Gitops / SonarQube / JUnit / Mock frameworks

* Hands on experience on Kubenetes ecosystem & container based deployments - Kubernetes / Docker / Helm Charts / Vault / Packer / lstio / Flyway

* Hands on experience on Infra as code frameworks - Terraform / Crossplane / Ansible

* Version Control & Code Quality: Git / Github / Bitbucket / SonarQube

* Experience on Monitoring Tools: Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana / Prometheus / Grafana / Datadog / Nagios

* Experience with RDBMS Databases & Caching services: Postgres / MySql / Redis / CDN

* Experience with Data Pipelines/Worflow tools: Airflow / Kafka / Flink / Pub-Sub

* DevSecOps - Cloud Security Assessment, Best Practices & Automation

* DevSecOps - Vulnerabiltiy Assessments/Penetration Testing for Web, Network and Mobile applications

* Preferrable to have Devops/Infra Experience for products in Payments/Fintech domain - Payment Gateways/Bank integrations etc

What will you do ?

Devops

* Provisioning the infrastructure using Crossplane/Terraform/Cloudformation scripts.

* Creating and Managing the AWS EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, VPC, KMS and IAM services, EKS clusters & RDS Databases.

* Monitor the infra to prevent outages/downtimes and honor our infra SLAs

* Deploy and manage new infra components.

* Update and Migrate the clusters and services.

* Reducing the cloud cost by enabling/scheduling for less utilized instances.

* Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as experts in - product, design, engineering

* Uphold best practices in Devops/DevSecOps and Infra management with attention to security best practices

DevSecOps

* Cloud Security Assessment & Automation

* Modify existing infra to adhere to security best practices

* Perform Threat Modelling of Web/Mobile applications

* Integrate security testing tools (SAST, DAST) in to CI/CD pipelines

* Incident management and remediation - Monitoring security incidents, recovery from and remediation of the issues

* Perform frequent Vulnerabiltiy Assessments/Penetration Testing for Web, Network and Mobile applications

* Ensure the environment is compliant to CIS, NIST, PCI etc.

Here are examples of apps/features you will be supporting as a Devops/DevSecOps Engineer

* Intuitive, easy-to-use APIs for payment process.

* Integrations with local payment gateways in international markets.

* Dashboard to manage gateways and transactions.

* Analytics platform to provide insights

Azure DevOps engineer should have a deep understanding of container principles and hands-on experience with Docker. 

They should also be able to set-up and manage clusters using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Additionally, understanding of API management, Azure Key-Vaults, ACR, networking concepts like virtual networks, subnets, NSG, route tables. Awareness of any one of the software like Apigee, Kong, or APIM in Azure is a must. Strong experience with IaC technologies like Terraform, ARM/ Bicep Templates, GitHub Pipelines, Sonar etc.

• Designing DevOps strategies: Recommending strategies for migrating and consolidating DevOps tools, designing an Agile work management approach, and creating a secure development process
• Implementing DevOps development processes: Designing version control strategies, integrating source control, and managing build infrastructure
• Managing application configuration and secrets: Ensuring system and infrastructure availability, stability, scalability, and performance
• Automating processes: Overseeing code releases and deployments with an emphasis on continuous integration and delivery
• Collaborating with teams: Working with architect and developers to ensure smooth code integration and collaborating with development and operations teams to define pipelines.
• Documentation: Producing detailed Development Architecture design, setting up the DevOps tools and working together with the CI/CD specialist in integrating the automated CI and CD pipelines with those tools
• Ensuring security and compliance/DevSecOps: Managing code quality and security policies
• Troubleshooting issues: Investigating issues and responding to customer queries
• Core Skills: Azure DevOps engineer should have a deep understanding of container principles and hands-on experience with Docker. They should also be able to set-up and manage clusters using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Additionally, understanding of API management, Azure Key-Vaults, ACR, networking concepts like virtual networks, subnets, NSG, route tables. Awareness of any one of the software like Apigee, Kong, or APIM in Azure is a must. Strong experience with IaC technologies like Terraform, ARM/ Bicep Templates, GitHub Pipelines, Sonar,
• Additional Skills: Self-starter and ability to execute tasks on time, Excellent communication skills, ability to come up with multiple solutions for problems, interact with client-side experts to resolve issues by providing correct pointers, excellent debugging skills, ability to breakdown tasks into smaller steps.

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

Responsibilities

• Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
• Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Lead incident management and actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers and the support team.
• Hire/Mentor other Infrastructure engineers and review their work to continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure and its tooling.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Lead infrastructure security audits

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 3 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Experience in security hardening of infrastructure, systems and services.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Exposure/Experience in setting up or managing Cloudflare, Qualys and other related tools
• Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
• Bonus points – Hands-on experience with Nginx, Postgres, Postfix, Redis or Mongo systems.

• Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Talend, BODS, Jenkins
• Microsoft Office (mandatory)
• Strong knowledge on Databases, Azure Synapse, data management, SQL
• Knowledge on any cloud platforms (Azure, AWS etc.,)

• Cloud and virtualization-based technologies (Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare).
• Java Application Server Administration (Weblogic, WidlFfy, JBoss, Tomcat).
• Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Linux/UNIX Administration (Amazon Linux and RedHat).
• Developing and supporting cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and guiding application development teams.
• Configuration Management tools (Chef or Puppet or ansible).
• Log aggregations tools such as Elastic and/or Splunk.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment-related tasks using terraform.
• Automate repetitive tasks required to maintain a secure and up-to-date operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and support always-available private/public cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
• Build AWS or other public cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes (EKS) based docker applications in AWS.
• Create custom OS images using Packer.
• Create and revise infrastructure and architectural designs and implementation plans and guide the implementation with operations.
• Liaison between application development, infrastructure support, and tools (IT Services) teams.
• Development and documentation of Chef recipes and/or ansible scripts. Support throughout the entire deployment lifecycle (development, quality assurance, and production).
• Help developers leverage infrastructure, application, and cloud platform features and functionality participate in code and design reviews, and support developers by building CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo, Jenkins, or Spinnaker.
• Create knowledge-sharing presentations and documentation to help developers and operations teams understand and leverage the system's capabilities.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• Leverage scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python) to build required automation and tools on an ad-hoc basis.

Who we have in mind:

• Solid experience in building a solution on AWS or other public cloud services using Terraform.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a desire to take on responsibility.
• Extensive knowledge in containerized application and deployment in Kubernetes
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system, RHEL preferred.
• Proficiency with shell scripting.
• Experience with Java application servers.
• Experience with GiT and Subversion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical and technical audiences.
• Experience working in a large-scale operational environment.
• Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
• Extensive knowledge of massively scalable systems. Linux operating system/application development desirable.
• Programming in scripting languages such as Python. Other object-oriented languages (C++, Java) are a plus.
• Experience with Configuration Management Automation tools (chef or puppet).
• Experience with virtualization, preferably on multiple hypervisors.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in related fields
• Certificates of training in associated fields/equipment’s

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.